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Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017 : The Aesthetics of Enclosure by Harry Warwick (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-101802077618

ISBN-139781802077612

eBay Product ID (ePID)18058378781

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Book TitleDystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film, 1979-2017 : The Aesthetics of Enclosure

Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicModern / 21st Century, Modern / 20th Century, Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts, History

AuthorHarry Warwick

Book SeriesLiverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number84

Dewey Decimal791.43615

Table Of ContentIntroduction - Anticipation: Science Fiction between Spectacle and Speculation PART 1: ENCLOSURE AFTER ENCLOSURE 1. Extrapolation: The New Enclosures in New Hollywood 2. Privatisation: Conceptualising Enclosure in RoboCop and Total Recall 3. Urbanisation: Images of Los Angeles in Blade Runner and The Truman Show PART 2: DYSTOPIA AFTER DYSTOPIA 4. Expropriation: Marx, Utopia, and the Limits of Political Economy 5. Innovation: Intellectual Property in The Matrix , The Island , and District 9 6. Speculation: Credit, Crisis, and Foreclosure in Repo Men and The Purge Conclusion - Negation: Capitalism at the End of the World

SynopsisOffering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017 (from Ridley Scott's Alien to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 ), Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film argues that the trajectory of Hollywood's dystopianism in that period is inextricable from the phenomenon of the 'new enclosures', the new dispossessions and privatisations sweeping across the United States since the 1970s. More precisely, it contends that the critiques of such dispossessions elaborated before the turn of the century - consider the satire of private policing in RoboCop (1987), the portrayal of commodified air in Total Recall (1990), and the nightmarish extrapolations of postmodern urbanism in Blade Runner (1982) and The Truman Show (1998) - begin to disappear in films such as The Matrix (1999), The Island (2005), District 9 (2009), Repo Men (2010), and The Purge (2013), the further commodification of land, forest, reservoir, ideas, even the human genome having diminished the contrast between capitalist and non-capitalist spaces on which the earlier critiques depended. Bringing close readings of blockbuster films into dialogue with historical and theoretical scholarship on dispossession, Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film proposes a new understanding of the politics of science fiction in particular and utopian thought in general., Offering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017, Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science Fiction Film argues that the trajectory of Hollywood's dystopian filmmaking in that period is inextricable from the 'new enclosures', the new dispossessions and privatisations sweeping across the United States since the 1970s.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.D97